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Cultural formation Josephine Butler
JB was born into a wealthy, presumably white family that instilled in its children Anglican and Evangelical piety and Liberal principles. Her religious activities were diverse and sometimes even seemingly contradictory. She recalls that her...
Cultural formation Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
At eighteen, while her family moved on from the London season to the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, she got permission to stay on in London at the house of an uncle, where she overtaxed...
Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
In her late twenties, Susanna met Thomas Pringle , Methodist secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society in England, who influenced her involvement with the abolitionist movement and her decision to join a Nonconformist congregation near Reydon...
Cultural formation Jane Cave
JC , daughter of Welsh and English parents,
Schürer, Norbert. “Jane Cave Winscom: Provincial Poetry and the Metropolitan Connection”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
36
, No. 3, pp. 415-31.
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came from the lower middle class (she mentions her humble station). She grew up with her father's fierce critiques of Anglican practice, yet attended Anglican...
Cultural formation Flora Thompson
Although strongly influenced by her Methodist grandfather, FT grew up in the Anglican Church. She remained an Anglican even though she was attracted to the Catholic Church in later life.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale.
71, 133
Cultural formation Mehetabel Wright
From a family which was financially precarious though middle-class by birth, MW seems to have questioned the religious fervour typical of its other members (at first Anglican , in due course Methodist ), while also...
Cultural formation Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...
Cultural formation Mary Tighe
MT 's gentry-class family had links with the English nobility; nevertheless, her Irish identity was important to her. Her parents were a prominent Methodist and a clergyman in the Church of Ireland .
Cultural formation Mary Bosanquet Fletcher
The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...
Cultural formation Olivia Clarke
Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...
Cultural formation Carol Shields
CS 's family was church-going, Methodist . For a while she attended a Quaker meeting, but by the 1980s she described herself as notreligious.
Wachtel, Eleanor, editor. “Carol Shields”. More Writers and Company: New Conversations with CBC Radio’s Eleanor Wachtel, Vintage Canada, pp. 36-56.
38,50
Cultural formation May Kendall
Not much is known about her life.
Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell.
627
English, middle-class, and presumably white, she was raised in the Wesleyan church .
Cultural formation Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
EPL grew up in a large, upper-middle-class, Liberal family that taught her to disregard class distinction.
Pethick-Lawrence, Emmeline. My Part in a Changing World. Hyperion.
59
Her father came from a long line of Cornish farmers who were devoted Methodist s. As a young...
Cultural formation Joanna Southcott
She created her own, millenarian religious sect after the Methodists and the Church of England (both of whose services she attended) had rebuffed her unconventional advances. She is, however, often associated with the Methodists.
Hopkins, James K. A Woman To Deliver her People: Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution. University of Texas Press.
47, 58, 35
Cultural formation Hannah Kilham
HK converted from Methodism to Quakerism , to which she had been leaning for some time; she now applied to join the monthly meeting at Balby near Doncaster.
Dickson, Mora. The Powerful Bond: Hannah Kilham 1774-1832. Dobson.
61

Timeline

January 1802: The Christian Observer was launched, as a...

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January 1802

The Christian Observer was launched, as a journalConducted by members of the established church with the aim of combating Methodism and other Dissenting sects as well as radicalism and scepticism.

1803: The Wesleyan Conference decided that their...

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1803

The Wesleyan Conference decided that their association (still within the Anglican Church but soon to form the new body of the Methodist Church ) should bar women from preaching.

1812: The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church...

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1812

The Wesleyan Conference split from the Church of England to form the Methodist Church .

By August 1833: Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published...

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By August 1833

Agnes Bulmer née Collinson (1775-1836) published her Methodist epicpoemMessiah's Kingdom, in nearly 14,000 lines of rhymed couplets.

September 1853: The popular Methodist London Quarterly Review...

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September 1853

The popular Methodist LondonQuarterly Review began publication.

1881: About four hundred delegates from around...

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1881

About four hundred delegates from around thirty Methodist organizations met at Wesley's Chapel in London for an Ecumenical Methodist Conference: the first World Methodist Conference.
“Who We Are. History”. World Methodist Council.

1919: The Federal Council of the Evangelical Free...

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1919

The Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Churches was formed to foster co-operation among Free Churches.

20 September 1932: In London, the Methodist Church formally...

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20 September 1932

In London, the Methodist Church formally united its different groups under one body.

February 1987: The St Hilda Community, activists for Anglican...

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February 1987

The St Hilda Community , activists for Anglican women's ordination, held its first Eucharist service in the student chapel of Queen Mary College , London, celebrated by an ordained American, Suzanne Fageol .

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